Learning Spaces Conference report This event was a half day event held at the University of Nottingham and collaboratively facilitated between the London Knowledge Lab, the Open University and the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Nottingham. There were many insular themes at the conference but the most …
#capitaconf Child protection in the Digital Environment Conference report 23rd September 2013 Manchester This years conference was opened by Susie Hargreaves, the chief executive for the Internet Watch Foundation, she set the context and tone in which the following discussion of esafety would play out. The current trends in young people’s …
The annual conference for the Association of Learning Technology was held this year at the University of Nottingham. Rachel Wenstone, the NUS Vice President gave the first key note and spoke about student expectations and partnerships and for the first year, there was a dedicated day for Further Education with …
A ‘digital footprint’ is the information about you that is held on the internet which can be searched for and is visible to everyone. Unless you make your information private, anyone, including potential employers, can see anything you have ever posted online. There have been cases in the past …
Taking care with social media: protect yourself against Facebook ‘mishaps’. During a recent staff development session on professional conduct, it became clear that many staff were concerned about the use of social media and unaware of how Facebook privacy settings could be changed. It is important that personal Facebook accounts …
